Replication package for "Locking Up the Vote? Evidence From Maine and Vermont on Voting from Prison" (Ariel White & Avery Nguyen)
September 2020
email Ariel (arwhi@mit.edu) with questions

This replication package includes two parts. 

First, "statevotingests_replication.R" produces Table 1 (state-level turnout and estimates of how many people would have been re-enfranchised had each state removed felony disfranchisement restrictions). The script shows how several publicly-available state-level datasets were merged together and how each of the columns in Table 1 was calculated. 

Second, the individual-level turnout estimates from Maine and Vermont are constructed in "individualanalysis_replication.R", along with some additional tables and figures from the SI. This code reads in deidentified versions of the original merged datasets from Maine and Vermont that drop a variety of potentially-identifying fields, including some exact dates. This means that in a few places the code includes commented-out sections that show how a variable was originally constructed (but the code cannot be run because it relies on a variable not included in the deidentified dataset). We have tried to strike a balance between research transparency and individual privacy concerns. Please feel free to reach out if you have questions about how files were merged together or how we requested the original records from state sources. 
